'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

You can’t understand hard things merely by doing hard work.